Week 3#

Positioning

In this week, the main subject of lectures, in my opinion, was about entering the actual research methods area, such bibliography. During the research, we should reach the knowledge of finding others and letting others t o find us.. Something like a 'compass', in the area of the research. Plus, we should determine some milestones in our research plan, because we should know what do we want, before we move toward it. We can always set some figures in our area, to learn from them; something that Erkki called it 'The Hall of Fame'.
It was a really good idea that Erkki decided to discuss us a real world example. He invited one of the students, to talk about his research (to be exact his work) area, the milestone he has achieved and the ones he has ahead and other details. I was good, cause it made me think about myself; my milestones, my area of work, timeline and my final goal.

Bibliography?

Moreover, Erkki discussed some other subjects, like: How to make a review of an article and one of the methods of research, Bibliography. The next lecture was about using LaTex, in area of bibliography, presented by one of PhD students. Bibliography is mainly about having a database of  articles. After the class I asked Erkki that will having a database of notes about article, be considered as bibliography (because that's what I do most of time, when I read articles) and his answer was positive. So currently, I'm working on a simple software, which the main idea is giving the ability of making notes, storing them in database and retrieving them when needed.

Research methods... Finally!

Another interesting part was making groups of 3-4 persons, to make presentations about research methods. Every team picked one research method to tell the class about its definition, history, techniques and introducing an CS paper or thesis, which have made use of this method. I think it's a good chance to learn about a research method completely and of course, learn from other teams' presentations.